Prize-Winning Youth Exhibition Opening Reception & Artist Round Table
Youth Exhibition Reception
Date: Saturday, May 2nd, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Aldergrove Kinsmen Community Centre (Home of the Langley Arts Council)
26770 29th Ave, Aldergrove BC V4W 3B8
Cost: Free for all ages to attend
Event Schedule
10:00 - 11:30 AM - Artist meet and greet, food, drinks, music
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM - Award Ceremony
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM - Artist meet and greet, food, drinks, music
12:30 - 1:45 PM - Artist Round Table
Details about the Opening Reception
Join the Langley Arts Council and participating artists in our annual Youth Exhibition. This year, we have emerging artists aged 14- 29 from across British Columbia. During this reception, enjoy light refreshments, live music, view the show, talk to the artists, and shop their works!
Best In Show Prizes and Awards:
This year, we have $750 cash prizes to be awarded. There will be three awards given for Best in Show artworks and three Juror's Excellence Prizes.
First Place - $200
Second Place - $150
Third Place - $100
Juror's Excellence Prizes - $100 x3
Meet Our Jurors!
Kirk Gower
Gower’s recent work has been shown at galleries including CICA (Center of International Contemporary Art), North Van Arts, Visual Space Gallery, THIS Gallery, the Seymour Art Gallery, and Kariton Art Gallery, as well as the Vancouver Mural Festival. His work has been featured in various publications, including Booooooom, Create Magazine, Visionary Magazine, and Suboart Magazine.
Amy J. Dyck
Amy J. Dyck is a contemporary and multimedia figurative visual artist, and writer, residing near Vancouver, BC, in Canada.
While working toward an education in design at the age of 20, Amy’s body collapsed. What followed were many, many years of elusive and debilitating symptoms that baffled even her medical team and placed her into a wheelchair. To cope with the challenges and to help her understand and process what she faced, she leaned into art-making.
Her intimate struggle with her body increased her fascination and appreciation for the human figure as a vessel that holds struggle, emotion, story, memory. She studied anatomy alongside classical drawing and painting strategies, and began to use these as tools alongside playful experimentation to compose her own stories, and to create analogies for what she was experiencing and imagining.
Amy exhibits regularly, and her work can be found in private collections in North America and internationally. Featured in recognized magazines, blogs, and a publication, she has also earned prizes from international art competitions, including several first-place awards. Amy was presented with a coveted Canada Council for the Arts grant in 2024, and loves sharing her story and passion for art through podcasts, speaking engagements, and in her forthcoming memoir on the intersection of art and illness.
Kacey Hughes
Kacey Hughes is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Surrey, British Columbia. Hughes received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and was a recipient of the Margaretha Bootsma Award for Excellence in Visual Art following her BFA thesis exhibition. She has been the recipient of other awards, including the Francis H. Holliger Award for Ceramic Excellence, the Linda Schwartz Endowed Award, and the Jason Singh Endowed Memorial Award. Hughes has exhibited in several galleries throughout the lower mainland and has attended three artist residencies: the Medalta International Artists in Residency Program at the Shaw International Centre for Contemporary Ceramics in 2018; a short-term artist residency at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in 2022; and Darts Hill Garden Park’s Artist in Residence Program in 2023. Hughes has been a ceramics and visual arts instructor for Semiahmoo Arts Society since 2021, and was a recipient of the 2025 Kwi Am Choi Scholarship at PoMoArts.
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Artist Round Table
Date: Saturday, May 2nd, 2026
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Featured Artists: Amy J. Dyck, Mark Ollinger, and Kari Kristensen
Location: Aldergrove Kinsmen Community Centre (Home of the Langley Arts Council)
26770 29th Ave, Aldergrove BC V4W 3B8